- Username
- Jordan A
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- Bob Bob
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I don't know what Pure OCD means, but I have had OCD all of my life and I'm in recovery...
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- Katoka AriKatoka Ari
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I always feel worse with my OCD after nights out/drinking. I am not alcoholic but I do think that alcohol/detoxing from it can make OCD worse
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- St.ClairSt.Clair
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I stopped drinking two years ago, so I could get to the root cause of my illness. I had used alcohol and pot to blunt a lot of my ocd feelings. Probably kept me from seeking help for many years. Wish I had not self medicaided that way. Still struggling with the ocd on the regular. But love waking up without the hangovers
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- I n II n I
- Date posted
- 4y ago
i can totally relate! stopped drinking 4 years ago and stopped smoking pot 1 1/2 years ago. both of which i used to self medicate. now i’m faced with ocd all up in my face.
- Username
- St.ClairSt.Clair
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@I n I I feel the same. The ocd is always present. Weird. At least I see it clearly now. Though there are times it would be nice to dull the feelings, I do like being present.
- Username
- piscesmomof6piscesmomof6
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes.
- Username
- LilamayLilamay
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Hi guys! I’m new here! I have struggled with OCD and insomnia since I was a child but wasn’t DX till recently. For the past 3-4 years I have struggled on and off with issues involving alchole and sleeping pills. I had been doing really well for awhile but recently had a relapse. Feeling very guilty. I used to go to meetings when I would notice my alchole intake increasing but always felt a little out of place due too the OCD component. Which has led me here...
- Username
- Jordan AJordan A
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
we are here for you! You’re not alone!
- Username
- LilamayLilamay
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank you. It feels better just knowing this exists!
- Username
- MM
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yep. It’s a battle for me too. Keep fighting brother.
- Username
- Jordan AJordan A
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Glad to see I’m not alone. Been struggling recently with false memory OCD in my recovery- thoughts that maybe I’ve taken a drink in sobriety and am hiding it or even forgotten about it, thinking about nights out where I’ve stayed sober and gotten a non-alcoholic beverage but my mind legimately convinces me it had alcohol in it. It’s brutal.
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- Bob Bob
- Date posted
- 4y ago
It's tough if you're truly "dual diagnosed" with addiction and mental illness (OCD) I would just say stay the course my friend! It gets tricky for me because AA around my area are super big into "sigularity of purpose" They don't want to hear about your mental health issues and...ugh...I've actually seen them ask someone to leave for mentioning drugs! We are all just trying to do the right thing but...that looks different to different people. I take Suboxone daily so it's a deal where you are at times, "sober with the exception of." The NA meetings around here are a mess! No sober time, shady shit going on in the parking lot...you're better off to just go to AA meetings and not bring up certain things. Idk you personally, but just know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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Alcohol and OCD: A cruel mistress! Hi all. I wanted to share my thoughts and potentially start a discussion about the role of alcohol in OCD. Certainly in my case I think it is a fundamental contributor to my suffering, and I'm not surprised about the statistics related to how many OCD sufferers also suffer from problematic drinking. My current obsessive themes are Real Event/guilt OCD and are often related to situations and events where I was incredibly drunk with fuzzy and missing memories, or my drunkenness contributed to certain actions that I now obsessively regret. Whilst this was in the past, alcohol is still contributing to my suffering, and I'm starting to wonder whether I would be much happier without it. I find that after sometimes months of feeling fine, most if not all of my major relapses have occurred directly after a night of heavy drinking, and that spark has sent me spiralling for days and sometimes weeks. I then became obsessed about limiting my drinking in certain situations, I had a fear that if I was drunk I would end up committing some horrible crime or cheating on my partner. Now though I'm finding that I'm drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on a very regular basis, just to take my mind off my obsessions, which is very unhealthy. When I have a drink, even just one, it feels like my thoughts just almost vanish in importance, it's like a beautiful break from all the suffering. This feeling scares me a little and I now worry that I might be verging on some form of dependency on alcohol. I'm not looking for any reassurance here, just wanted to share my experience and chat with others who might also be struggling in this way.
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